Vivo and their Y38, opinions

Model Y38 was presented in May 2024

I/O variants

Y38 has networks 2G, 3G and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 20, 28, 38, 39, 40, 41. Performance is about HSPA, LTE, 5G, GSM / HSPA / LTE / 5G.

Ports on this model are USB USB Type-C 2.0, OTG, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Bluetooth 5.1, A2DP, LE, Positioning GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, BDS, QZSS, NFC.

Miscellaneous

Charging options are 44W wired.

Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass sensors are supported on this Y38.

Body

Y38 this time has 76mmX165.7mmX8mm size.

This model has 1 colors - ocean blue and dark green.

Y38 display is built as IPS LCD, 120Hz, 1000 nits (peak), at a moment Y38 had display larger size than 50% of devices in mobile market, which is 6.68 inches, 107.2 cm2 (~85.1% screen-to-body ratio) screen supporting resolution 720 x 1612 pixels proportions are 20:9 and having density 264 pixels in 1 inch square.

Cam stats

2 lenses insalled on Vivo Y38 50 MP, f/1.8, (wide), PDAF 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth). Some another extra options are LED flash, HDR, panorama. Video on main camera of Vivo Y38 is supported with 1080p@30fps choices.

Video recording on selfie camera of Vivo Y38 is supported with 1080p@30fps options.

Few words about performance

Octa-core (2x2.2 GHz Cortex-A78 & 6x1.95 GHz Cortex-A55) CPU was designed for Y38 by Vivo, having chipset Qualcomm SM4450 Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 (4 nm), Video card on this device is Adreno 613.

Memory on this model is 256GB 8GB RAM, external card slot is available microSDXC (dedicated slot), OS is Android 14, Funtouch 14.